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October 5, 2019, I decide to write something on debaser but I still don't know what. I thought of writing about Jannacci, but I didn't know which album to choose. Then I thought of writing about Elio, but the first and last time didn't go very well. Then, the enlightenment: the white albums! Those albums of the national-popular songwriter par excellence that combine complex lyrics with electronic and equally complex music. So, to bring these little gems back to the surface on Deb. And let's start from the beginning, from the first of the five, from the most open and least electronic of all. DON GIOVANNI.
Where to start? Well, not from the first track; and "Le cose che pensano" it was. The track is beautiful, with sweet music that blends almost perfectly with lyrics that are sweet but also bitter at times, in short, a gem. The initial sax is beautiful, the music is beautiful, but the flaw of "Fatti un pianto" is the lyrics: don't blame me, but I've never fully appreciated the lyrics of this song, maybe I'm just dumb? We'll never know, unfortunately. "Il doppio del gioco" I adore: the music has bass lines that give goosebumps and the lyrics are beautiful: a kind of love story between a girl and a former secret agent, so COOL. But now let's get to the point: "Madre pennuta", what the heck is it? The lyrics are perhaps one of Panella's most cryptic and the music is something inhuman: it starts with electronic echoes and at some point turns into something tribal; in short, beautiful even if you can't understand a damn thing. In "Equivoci amici" Panella loses control, among those who make blackberries, those who go to inspiration, and those who set the bridge, a completely insane track emerges where the music accompanies this cauldron of wordplay. And so, out of the blue, the highest point of the album arrives, the title track: "Don Giovanni". The lyrics are magnificent and the music is light as if not wanting to disturb the words too much; one of the best tracks of the white albums. Too underrated instead is "Che vita ha fatto", the most classic track of the album: it is beautiful, the lyrics are minimal, and the music is fantastic with strings, trumpets, and a monstrous bass that make it something that, at least in the white albums, will not happen again. And it concludes with "Il diluvio", a six-minute opus that combines instruments and words into something magnificent, the worthy conclusion of a beautiful album.
I particularly appreciate Don Giovanni, it almost perfectly combines the singer-songwriter world and new age, forming something that I honestly don't hear in these recent years. So, if you couldn't tell, I recommend listening to the album. Ah, see you when L'APPARENZA deceives
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By bogusman
Don Giovanni has been able to offer those who have listened to it since its first release: not resembling any other album either by Battisti or others.
It is equally impossible to deny the originality of the project, so much so that no one else, not even Battisti, has been able to fully develop the ideas present in this record.
By Eneathedevil
If the Molleggiato says he doesn’t know how to 'talk about love,' Lucio no longer 'wants' to talk about love.
The new Battisti, the new experimental challenge through the virtuosic use of words and attention to electronic sounds.
By Viva Lì
"Don Giovanni is hermetic at the maximum level, very difficult to understand, decipherable (perhaps) only on the tenth listen."
"A vocal and musical deconstruction that unfortunately will not have successors... Don Giovanni is nevertheless the first of these experiments, and thus it is the least successful."
By Battisti
Don Giovanni ... is probably one of the best tracks in Italian music.
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